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Fri, Feb 15, 2013 | 17:42 GMT

Project Awakened lands on Steam Greenlight

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Phosphor Games has put its superhero action-sandbox title Project Awakened on Steam Greenlight. Now you have another place in which to cheer for it. You can still toss some money at the project on Kickstarter, where it has 18 days left to reach its $500,000 goal. A create-a-player prototype video is below. Thanks, Joystiq.

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Tue, Feb 05, 2013 | 05:42 GMT

Awakened takes to Kickstarter, is the successor to Midway’s Hero

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Awakened, an ambitious sandbox game Chicago indie Phosphor Games, is the project formerly known as Hero. And you can help make it happen.

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Sun, Jan 30, 2011 | 22:33 GMT

Two early Awakened trailers plus 15 minutes of Hero

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Is it morbid fascination with the deceased Midway and its not-quite-swansong Hero that makes us so interested in Awakened? Not, it’s that is sounds bloody brilliant. Two trailers have turned up, in their rough-and-ready pre-alpha state, and you may gaze on them through the jump.

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Sat, Jan 29, 2011 | 19:27 GMT

Phosphor Games’ Awakened is based on Midway’s canned open-world game Hero

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With Midway Chicago being sold to Warner, the team behind the open-world action game Hero lost all assets, code, art and everything else pertaining to it in the process. So, when the remnants of that team went on to form Phosphor Games, it decided to continue work on the game in the form of Awakening, but unfortunately, it had to start all over from scratch.

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